We offer thorough sign planning and design using the latest softwareand techniques all while adhering to the most recent city, county, andstate regulations.

Custom ADA Compliant
Interior Signage

Let us help you create compliance with full interior ADAapproved signs and sign packages ensuring your spacewelcomes all of the public.

Life Safety, Operational
& Wayfinding Signage

Facilitate customer throughput with concise, legible wayfinding signs.It's not just a matter of following OSHA code, it's about creating a healthy,productive work environment for your staff as well as for your customers.

Trade Show & Branded
Corporate Environments

We provide portable, easy-to-use trade show displays and booths and modern, elegant corporate environments including wall wraps and graphics as well as stunning lobby signs.

Monument Signs
& Entry Statements

A monument sign is the first statement you make about yourself as yourcustomer visits your establishment. Let us design and install something that truly reflects all that your brand stands for.

Dimensional Graphics
& Channel Letters

Showcase the reliability and longevity of your business with the permanence of dimensional signage and lettering.The brand visibility afforded by illuminated channel letterswill instill a sense of lasting aesthetic presence.

Illuminated Cabinet
& Pylon Signage

We can create the perfect flourescent bulb or LED illuminated cabinet, pylon, or pole sign that can be easily and quicklychanged as tenants come and go.

CompleteTurnkey Installation

We can provide the design, permit acquisition, construction management,logistics, and even service after the sale for ongoing maintenance as neededover time. Don't waste valuable time trying to handle a large project on your own.

Create the world you work in.

Create Brand.

Never underestimate the power of a first impression or an environment that evokes an emotional connection.

From trade show booths and corporate facilities, to restaurants and sports venues, a cohesive, well-branded space will keep customers coming back and keep employees inspired.

Our services include the custom design of signage and graphics to complement your business, material and fabrication techniques for optimum durability, the ideal placement of signage or graphics based on apparent traffic flow, and the installation of all pieces to current industry standards.

Let us create a space where your customers and employees will love spending time and will want to return again and again.

Create Direction.

Do you need directional signage or informational signage for your large facility or site project?

The knowledgeable staff at DesignElement have years of experience in planning, design and implementing complete signage packages for projects of any size and scope.

The process is simple; provide us with your general requirements, branding guidelines, and a floor plan or site map of your project. From there, we will create the design basis, a detailed list of all the signage you will need and where each sign will be installed.

Once the designs have been approved, we will produce and then install the signage on-site at your location. Don’t waste valuable time trying to handle a large project on your own.

With our extensive knowledge of design, available materials, manufacturing processes and code compliance, we can take you from concept to completion in the shortest time possible – and often for less than you might expect.

Create Impact.

DesignElement started with the simple goal of providing our clients with unique design, a quality product, and excellent customer service. Our primary focus is to develop your idea into a powerful brand by following our mission of providing superior interior and exterior signage, design services, and unique, visual communication solutions.

Strong, enduring brands are not just a graphic; they are a graphic that triggers an emotion.

The psychology of shapes and colors is essential when developing a branding or signage program that convey the correct message and emotion to your clients, and DesignElement boasts a collective total of over 100 years’ experience in the communication and environmental design industry.

We build powerful brands that stand the test of time by realizing the importance of details that shape the public’s perception of a product and business, and this understanding has helped us develop the image of a diverse and growing customer base that includes retail, corporate, healthcare, entertainment and real estate development.

Create Today.

Create a statement that leaves the right impression! If you are looking for top-notch, custom signage for maximum impact, DesignElement is your one-stop design/build resource.

Offering turnkey solutions, DesignElement provides the design, permit acquisition, construction/construction management, logistics, and even service after the sale for ongoing maintenance as needed over time.

With so many material and construction methods available, there’s never been a better time to give your facility an eye-catching statement that will last for years to come.

Why Work With Us?

With a collective total of over 100 years’ experience creating custom signage for education, hospitality, healthcare, residential and corporate customers, we understand what it takes to create engaging and informational custom signage that fits the unique needs of your organization. It’s not bragging if you can back it up, and we can.

When you buy our company, we sell yours. This is because DesignElement is more than a sign provider – we’re a full-service, award-winning communication and environmental design firm that offers novel, innovative design solutions ranging from simple logo design for small businesses, to full branding for large, global companies.

DesignElement provides a small studio environment facilitating an active, face-to-face customer service experience wherein our experienced project managers and sign designers will work with you to design, build, and install complete sign packages. We are partnered with local Signarama stores to provide the fast turnaround and quality products you’ve come to expect from a national brand. This allows us to deliver complete turnkey design-build solutions as well as offer maintenance plans so you won’t have to wait to get that one extra sign you didn’t know you needed after the job is complete.

Turnkey Installation

Our Featured Projects

The Lake Castleberry monument signs mark the entrances to a CalAtlantic residential development in Apex, NC. We designed the large entryway monument as well as two smaller mirrored monuments. This multi-layered monument sign features an 11 ft long carved HDU sign that is recess mounted into locally sourced stone.

The signage for the Rodgers Family Skate Plaza at Trackside in Apex, NC, included multiple branding signs as well as a dedication sponsor art piece memorial. The park has a fantastic history and origin story involving the retired chief of police and the local youth working together on this community project. DesignElement was asked to...

Underwriters Laboratories, located in Research Triangle Park, needed a branded interior and a wayfinding sign to direct traffic at their facility. We came up with an impressive halo lit illuminated dimensional lobby sign that really grabs your attention as you walk in the door. We also designed, fabricated, and installed an aluminum pylon wayfinding sign...

The Landings at New Light monument was designed, fabricated, and installed by DesignElement for Wynn Homes, a well known North Carolina based developer. This beautiful entryway statement featured a tapered stone monument and a projecting wooden beam with a hanging sign consisting of a metal frame and a carved and painted hdu sign. You can...

The YMCA of the Triangle re-branding and monument sign project was a unique opportunity afforded to us by our good friends at Withers & Ravenel. Located at the Camp Kanata facility in Wake Forest, our project started with an entryway monument sign that fit the active outdoorsy theme that the Y exemplifies and quickly turned into a full...

We installed a complete interior upfit after Dilweg‘s renovation at 3150 Roberts Road in Wake Forest. We planned, produced, and installed all the core and suite signage in house. The suite signage featured removable nameplates with laser engraved logo and graphics. Additionally, we installed vinyl graphics on their fleet of company vehicles.

Self Help was a fun project to work on. Located on Main Street in Durham, NC, it included a branded interior with glass vinyl lettering and featured a radius entry wall with raised acrylic letters. ADA compliant braille signage was used to designate hundreds of rooms and offices throughout. Offset aluminum wayfinding signs were installed on...

Road Scholars came to us needing new signage for the facility they had just moved into located in Durham, NC. They were looking for a building sign and entryway sign that reflected the quality of work they delivered to their customers. DesignElement planned, designed, and installed an elegant aluminum cabinet pylon sign featuring internally illuminated punch...

The Charter Square project in Raleigh, NC featured over 300 custom made ADA compliant interior wayfinding signs. Each sign was fabricated from non-glare acrylic with raised brushed aluminum features. The entrance sign and directory featured dimensional lettering and brushed aluminum plates giving the signage an impressive look when seen from a light refracting angle. The...

Patheon contacted us about branding new industrial, manufacturing, and office space in Durham, North Carolina as well as Greenville and Florence, South Carolina. This included multiple channel letters, halo lit channel letters, ground signs, vehicular directionals, and lobby signage. The Greenville, SC required the use of large boom lifts in order to complete an 80′...

We is proud to have been contacted by ESPN’s First Take to design, create, and install sets in Chapel Hill, NC for the Duke vs UNC rivalry games in early 2015. Sets were created which included multiple large fabric banners, foam core wall panels, stage column wraps, and window decals. The team only had a...

Design-Build Turn-Key entrance monument, entry columns, and street signage for Tyler Park Community for HHHunt in Fuquay-Varina, NC. Project included 2 entrance monuments across street from each other along with 4 columns. Monuments are masonry with pardged sign area, low planter, and aluminum column caps. Custom street signage was installed for entire community.

What Our Clients Say

The signs and the wall graphics look AWESOME!! We are so happy to be almost completely rebranded, and we can't thank you enough for working with us during this process.

Empower Personal TrainingCo-owner

On behalf of the HBADOC, thank you for working with us on signage for both Playhomes and Green Home Tour. Your team did a great job on both and worked with us on tough deadlines. We look forward to working with you on future events.

HBADOC

I wanted to take an opportunity to thank you for the great job you have done for the various departments at The Streets at Southpoint. The temporary signage program has received rave reviews from our corporate office, and will become the model for future projects we develop. The copper sign in our Reception area turned out better than we imagined and really sets the tone for the type of project we will open on March 8. We have always been able to count on you for quick, thorough and quality work and we truly appreciate that.